The Palisades Fire in Southern California has rapidly grown to 1,200 acres, prompting evacuations amid severe winds. Follow Newsweek's live blog.

California Governor Gavin Newsom had met with President Joe Biden, who was also in Los Angeles this week, requesting him for federal disaster aid. Biden had immediately approved it. “No politics ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has approved the construction of a massive 700-km sea wall stretching from Banten to East Java to protect rice fields on the north coast of Java Island. According ...

"The president decided to implement several programmes, including the construction of a giant sea wall of 700 kilometres from Banten to East Java," he stated at the 2025 ESG Sustainable Forum on ...

Los Angeles Fire Department crews responded to the Sepulveda Fire burning in medium to heavy brush in the area of North Sepulveda Boulevard and Getty Center Drive around 11 p.m. Winds gusting up ...

Firefighters stopped the forward progress of a 40-acre brush fire in the Sepulveda Pass near the I-405 Freeway late Wednesday. Cal Fire reported the blaze was 60% contained Thursday afternoon.

which is intended to be installed on the sea, is the brainchild of Norwegian company Wind Catching Systems (WCS), and there’s nothing else like it being developed anywhere in the world. The ...

US District Court Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. ordered on Jan. 10 to reduce the sentence of George Sepulveda, convicted in 1997 and sentenced to serve three concurrent life sentences in ...

LOS ANGELES — Evacuation warnings were lifted and forward progress of a fire in the Sepulveda Basin was stopped Thursday, but not before the fire burned 45 acres in Brentwood. Firefighters made ...

U.S. District Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. will reconsider the life-without-parole sentence now being served by George Sepulveda, 50, the leader – or Inca – of the Latin Kings in Rhode ...

Off the waters of Biscayne Bay, along the shoreline of a posh Miami Beach residential island, a brand new sea wall is being installed. It’s not being built using ordinary concrete slabs though.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine security official said Tuesday that China is “pushing us to the wall” with growing aggression in the disputed South China Sea and warned that “all ...